Displaying nationality as traditional culture in the Belgrade Ethnographic Museum

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Simić, M. (2006). Displaying nationality as traditional culture in the Belgrade Ethnographic Museum: Exploration of a museum modernity practice, (54), 305-318. Retrieved from http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08610654305S
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Title

Displaying nationality as traditional culture in the Belgrade Ethnographic Museum

Subtitle

Exploration of a museum modernity practice

Author

Marina, Simić

Journal

Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU

Volume
Issue

54

Start page

305

End page

318

ISSN
ISBN
DOI
URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08610654305S

Date

2006-2020/03/06/22:34:39

Abstract

This paper is an exploration of the modernist project of museums’ construction of "reality" through the processes of the collecting and displaying of objects, as practiced in the Ethnographic Museum Belgrade. Through the analysis of the museum’s collecting and exhibiting practices, I will try to argue that in Belgrade ethnographic museum practice the idea of the nation is closely connected with the idea of ethnicity as a bounded whole of the distinctive characteristics embodied in the traditional culture that the museum collects and displays.

Keywords

ethnicity, nation, anthropology of the museum, modernity, museum of ethnography, nation state, traditional culture